Did the Queen like one’s Jubilee? Did Boris get to see the volleyball? Hugo Rifkind has the answers (well, possibly)

January: The Queen

“Philly?” one remembers saying on New Year’s Day. “What’s the
opposite of an annus horribilis?”

Philly said he’d never understood that phrase. “Sounds like the upshot of a
dodgy curry,” he said. “Sounds like what you’d get after a bad day on a
horse.”

“No, Philly,” one explained. “This is to be one’s special year. One’s jubilee.”

Philly said he thought one had had one of those last year. They do seem to
come around terribly fast. But this, one knew, was going to be special.
Parades. A flotilla. Commemorative coins. One bloody loves commemorative
coins.